Online dating body types

Have you ever tried to define your body type for an online dating site? However, my biggest quarrel with dating sites is their use of body type to categorize women.

I generally like dating sites, in fact back in the day I had even thought about starting a dating site myself; one based on face reading.

But body type definitions are so vague as to be useless.

Women are accused of “lying” about their body type (as well as lying about their age; for men it is height and income) up to 80% of the time, but how can you lie about something if you don’t even know the answer to the question?

The real puzzling part of misrepresenting yourself online when looking for the love of your life, or of July, whatever comes first — is that you aren’t just misrepresenting yourself to a perspective match, you’re misrepresenting yourself to you.

If one of your New Year’s resolutions for 2014 is to finally find love—and if you’re single, it probably is—then there’s a good chance you may soon turn to online dating.

According to a Pew Research poll released last October, 59 percent of Internet users think that online dating is a good way to meet people, while 36 percent of Americans who are single and actively looking for a partner, according to dating site Zoosk, are going online to find a match.

Now, you may think that having a face like Ryan Gosling and a bank account like Mark Zuckerberg is the best way to attract women online, but the truth is that even those guys would strike out with a crappy online dating profile.

Also, they’re looking to date a human being, not a blue ribbon county fair marshal.

Talk about what you like to do, what your hobbies are, what you read, what you watch on TV, whether you are a foodie or not.

Basically the thing to do is to use common sense when dipping into emoticon and abbreviation territory.